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		<title>Can you really trust your eyes?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:13:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Al Seckel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Optical illusions, they're jokes for the eyes.  In this fun and "eye opening" (sorry for the pun) video you'll see some entertaining and revealing optical illusions created by some great artists from around the world.  See if you can resist the urge to let your brain fool itself.]]></description>
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		<title>We make our own reality</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:43:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More time than not, we hear or see what we expect to.  We are gifted with a natural ability to find patterns in sights and sounds.  Most of us have found shapes in clouds, and sometimes we find shapes in other things. This posting and video from the 2006 TED conference Dr. Michael Shermer talks about how we shape our own reality, and I discuss how sometimes we dismiss a person's perspective of reality based entirely on a medical diagnosis.]]></description>
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		<title>Does your brain make thoughts or do thoughts make your brain?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:05:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Darwin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr Susan Blackmore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[memes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[natural selection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are thoughts just using our brains or are we creating our own thoughts? Dr. Susan Blackmore--Visiting Professor in the School of Psychology, University of Plymouth--introduces some of the thoughts and theories related to memes and coins a new term "temes" in this controversial and thought provoking 19 minute video from February 2008 TED talks.  

For those not familiar with the term, and using Dr. Blackmore's definition--memes are "self-replicating units of information that spread themselves via human consciousness" through imitation and cultural standards.]]></description>
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		<title>Jill Bolte Taylor&#8217;s personal stroke story</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:26:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brain Anatomy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watch brain anatomist, Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, talk about the stroke she suffered in December 1996 and learn about how the two halves of your brain see the world in very different ways.]]></description>
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		<title>The Visual Art of Puzzles</title>
		<link>http://strongerminds.com/the-visual-art-of-puzzles</link>
		<comments>http://strongerminds.com/the-visual-art-of-puzzles#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 08:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[puzzles]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[video]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alzheimer's]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brain fitness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Discover Magazine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scott Kim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Entertainment Gathering]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today's post centers around a short video of Scott Kim, presenting at The <a title="The Entertainment Gathering - link opens in new window" href="http://www.the-eg.com/" target="_blank">Entertainment Gathering</a> in December 2008.  He talks about the evolution of his puzzle work. This is an enlightening presentation and shows the the nearly limitless diversity of creativity and shows the variety of puzzles that are available to keep the brain actively engaged in more ways than just crossword puzzles and sudoku.]]></description>
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		<title>Hacking the human brain</title>
		<link>http://strongerminds.com/hacking-the-human-brain</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 07:33:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Keith Barry, illusionist and "mentalist" demonstrates some simple techniques to "hack" the human mind and make you question just what is "real" when he presented at the February 2004 TED conference in Monterey, California. ]]></description>
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